Future Islands Own Their Moment

Future Islands Own Their Moment

We’ve written at length already about Future Islands’ special new album Singles, their gripping live show, and the slow-building success that’s finally coming to fruition for them. All of that seemed plenty true as night descended on Indio on Saturday and this band seized its moment. Samuel Herring has combined two distinct frontmen from arguably the two most enduring underground bands of the ’80s — Black Flag’s fuming aggressor Henry Rollins and the Smiths’ suave, sharp-tongued Morrissey — and his band sends him into such a fervor that he can’t help launching into that Letterman meme dance. Bonus points for having some songs that sound like Les Savy Fav.